Pietro Valpreda

Pietro Valpreda (22 June 1933-6 July 2002) was an Italian anarchist who was arrested for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, which was, in fact, carried out by neo-fascists.

Biography
Pietro Valpreda was born in Milan, Lombardy in 1933, and he served in a pioneers platoon of the Italian Army before becoming a vaudeville dancer. He became involved with anarchist circles in Milan, but Giuseppe Pinelli kicked him out for advocating the use of bombings, leading to Valpreda heading to Rome in 1969. In December, he was accused of being responsible for the Piazza Fontana bombing, and he was subjected to "media lynching". However, it was revealed that he had been confused with Antonino Sottosanti, a right-wing infiltrator of the anarchists, and that the bombing had been orchestrated by the neo-fascists as a "false flag" operation. Valpreda served three years in prison, and he was released in December 1972. In 1979, he was sentenced to four years in prison for subversive associations. After his release, he worked as a writer, and he died in 2002.